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Let it all out
Bribaba - wrote on 05/05/2011
The backdrop to this startling tale is that bastion of English civility: the cricket match. Going to the wicket here are the staff and inmates at a mental asylum. Keeping score is a young intern and Crossley (Alan Bates), a man whose needs are special and very possibly insane. During the course of the game he describes to his fellow scorer how his life have come to such a pass. He claims to have been living amongst Aborigines for eighteen years, and to have learned how to kill by shouting. In flashback we are taken to Devon where he takes up with a young rural couple (John Hurt and Susannah York) who are skeptical of this and most of his other scary stories. Unsurprisingly considering that, as narrators go, they don’t come much more unreliable than mental patients.
Thematically this …
